Minority treaties alienated both minorities and the new states meant to protect them

Evidence

Wachirawut, his son and successor (r. 1910–1925), had to pick up the pieces, modelling himself this time on the self-naturalizing dynasts of Europe. Although – and because – he was educated in late Victorian England, he dramatized himself as his country’s ‘first nationalist.’ The target of this nationalism, however, was neither the United Kingdom, which controlled 90 per cent of Siam’s trade, nor France, which had recently made off with easterly segments of the old realm: it was the Chinese whom his father had so recently and blithely imported. The style of his anti-Chinese stance is suggested by the titles of two of his most famous pamphlets: The Jews of the Orient (1914), and Clogs on Our Wheels (1915). — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 382 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European powers claimed to protect Eastern minorities as a pretext for their own policy.; Minority treaties could single out groups for expulsion rather than protect them; The Minority Treaties institutionalized the principle that only same-origin nationals deserve full legal protection. (+1 more)

Related

• Official nationalism redirected resentment onto imported ethnic minorities (similarity 0.82)
• Minority Treaties functioned as disguised assimilation tools favoring dominant nation-states (similarity 0.82)
• Minority treaties could single out groups for expulsion rather than protect them (similarity 0.82)
• The Minority Treaties institutionalized the principle that only same-origin nationals deserve full legal protection. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Minority treaties could single out groups for expulsion rather than protect them #expands (0.90)
• The Minority Treaties institutionalized the principle that only same-origin nationals deserve full legal protection. #expands (0.85)
• Official nationalism redirected resentment onto imported ethnic minorities #exemplifies (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 382